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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 02 December 2022, 18:19:31 »Fired up Pierre and reversed it out through the gates onto the drive, ready to call the scrapman to come and collect it.Just shoot the damn thing already...
Then decided to have one last look at the oil leak, leaving aside all previous thinking on the matter, and I had a completely new idea what the problem is
Will find out when I have time over the next few days if Im right or wrong, but it may yet be back on the road.
The cost of replacing it is a lot more than it was a couple of years ago.
Anyhoo -This is a shortened version, from the start of the problem it has been spraying oil from somewhere around the cam pulley, over the bulkhead, servo etc.
Obvious choice was camshaft oil seal. That didnt cure it, so new camshaft and another oil seal which still didnt cure it
Today I started it up again and adopted the attitude, it shouldnt be from the camshaft area, so where else could it be coming from ?
After looking as best I could with a torch (its pretty cramped and very oily) I had the thought, that it may well be actually leaking from the crank seal and dripping onto the cambelt. Then getting taken up higher on the belt before getting sprayed out when the belt runs over the cam pulley.
I have a crank seal in the shed, so will pull it apart one last time, fit the seal, and then test my theory.
We shall see.
If it does turn out to be the crank seal I will be happy and pissed off in equal measure.
Pissed off because I should have thought of it a long time ago, but got tunnel vision and didnt stop to think harder about possible causes..
When you've pulled it apart previously is the timing belt always soaked in oil ?
